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Aluminum

Definition: Aluminum

Aluminum

Noun

1. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aluminum" was first used: 1808, expression used by Sir Humphry Davy. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Aluminum

DomainDefinition

Chemistry

A)a metallic element; b)a good electrical conductor; c)a soft material particularly easily deposited by vacuum evaporation, adheres to silicon and silicon oxide surface. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of aluminum, denotes contentment with any fortune, however small. For a woman to see her aluminum ornaments or vessels tarnished, foretells strange and unexpected sorrow, and loss will befall her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Health

A metallic element that has the atomic number 13, atomic symbol Al, and atomic weight 26.98. (references)

Mining

A light, silvery-white, ductile metal with high electrical conductivity and good resistance to corrosion. Obtained from bauxite. Symbol, Al. It is the lightest of the metals in general use commercially and is the basis for light alloys used in the construction of modern aircraft and rockets; aluminum coatings are used for telescope mirrors, decorative paper, packages, and toys. The oxide, alumina, occurs naturally as ruby,sapphire, corundum, and emery. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Aluminium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Magnesium - Aluminium - Silicon
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Al
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Full table
General
Name, Symbol, NumberAluminium, Al, 13
Chemical series True metals
Group, Period, Block13 (IIIA), 3 , p
Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2.75
Appearance silvery
Atomic Properties
Atomic weight 26.981538 amu
Atomic radius (calc.) 125 (118) pm
Covalent radius 118 pm
van der Waals radius no data
Electron configuration [Ne]33s2 3p1
e- 's per energy level2, 8, 3
Oxidation states (Oxide) 3 (amphoteric)
Crystal structure Cubic face centered
Physical Properties
State of matter solid
Melting point 933.47 K (1220.58 °F)
Boiling point 2792 K (4566 °F)
Molar volume 10.00 ×1010-3 m3/mol
Heat of vaporization 293.4 kJ/mol
Heat of fusion 10.79 kJ/mol
Vapor pressure 2.42 E-06 Pa at __ K
Speed of sound 5100 m/s at 933 K
Miscellaneous
Electronegativity 1.61 (Pauling scale)
Specific heat capacity 900 J/(kg*K)
Electrical conductivity 37.7 106/m ohm
Thermal conductivity 237 W/(m*K)
1st ionization potential 577.5 kJ/mol
2nd ionization potential 1816.7 kJ/mol
3rd ionization potential 2744.8 kJ/mol
4th ionization potential 11577 kJ/mol
5th ionization potential 14842 kJ/mol
6th ionization potential 18379 kJ/mol
7th ionization potential 23326 kJ/mol
8th ionization potential 27465 kJ/mol
9th ionization potential 31853 kJ/mol
10th ionization potential 38473 kJ/mol
Most Stable Isotopes
isoNAhalf-life DMDE MeVDP
26Al{syn.}7.17 E5 yEpsilon4.00426Mg
27Al100%Al is stable with 14 neutrons
SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Aluminium or aluminum (in the U.S. and Canada) is a chemical element in the periodic table with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. A silvery, ductile metal, aluminium is found primarily as the ore bauxite and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, its strength, and its light weight. Aluminium is used in many industries to make millions of different products and is very important to the world economy. Structural components made from aluminium are vital to the aerospace industry and very important in other areas of transportation and building in which light weight, durability, and strength are needed.

Notable characteristics

Aluminum is a soft, lightweight and but strong metal with a dull silver-gray appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air and which prevents further corrosion. Aluminium weighs about one-third as much as steel or copper; is malleable, ductile, and easily machined and cast; and has excellent corrosion resistance and durability. It is also nonmagnetic and nonsparking and is the second most malleable metal and the sixth most ductile.

Applications

Whether measured in terms of quantity or value, aluminium's use exceeds that of any other metal except iron, and it is important in virtually all segments of the world economy. Pure aluminium is soft and weak, but it can form alloys with small amounts of copper, magnesium, manganese, silicon, and other elements to make alloys having a variety of useful properties.

These alloys form vital components of aircraft and rockets. When aluminium is evaporated in a vacuum it forms a coating that reflects both visible light and radiant heat. These coatings form a thin layer of protective aluminium oxide that does not deteriorate as silver coatings do. Coating telescope mirrors is another use of this metal.

Some of the many uses for aluminium are in

Its oxide, alumina, is found naturally as corundum, emery, ruby, and sapphire and is used in glass making. Synthetic ruby and sapphire are used in lasers for the production of coherent light.

Aluminium oxidizes very energetically and as a result has found use in solid rocket fuels and thermite.

History

Friedrich Wöhler is generally credited with isolating aluminium (Latin alumen, alum) in 1827. However, this metal was produced for the first time in impure form two years earlier by Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted. The invention of the Hall-Héroult process in 1886 made extracting aluminium from minerals inexpensive, and so it is now in common use throughout the world.

Ancient Greeks and Romans used this metal as dyeing mordant and as an astringent to bind wounds, and alum is still used as a styptic. In 1761 Guyton de Morveau proposed calling the base alum alumine.

Occurrence & resources

Although Al is an abundant element in the Earth's crust (8.1%), it is very rare in its free form and was once considered a precious metal more valuable than gold. It is therefore comparatively new as an industrial metal and has been produced in commercial quantities for just over 100 years.

Aluminum was, when it was first discovered, extremely difficult to separate from the rocks it was part of and, since the whole of the Earth's aluminum was bound up in the form of compounds, the most difficult metal on earth to get, despite the fact that it is one of the planet's most common.

For a while, precious aluminum was more valuable than gold, but the prices dropped continually and collapsed altogether when an easy extraction method was discovered in 1889.

Recovery of this metal from scrap (via recycling) has become an important component of the aluminium industry. A common practice since the early 1900s, aluminium recycling is not new. It was, however, a low-profile activity until the late 1960s when recycling of aluminium beverage cans finally placed recycling into the public consciousness. Sources for recycled aluminium include automobiles, windows and doors, appliances, containers and other products.

Aluminium is a reactive metal and cannot be extracted from its ore, bauxite (Al2O3), through reduction with carbon. Instead it is extracted by electrolysis — the metal is oxidized in solution and then reduced again to the pure metal. The ore must be in a liquid state for this to occur. However, bauxite has a melting point of 2000°C, which is too high a temperature to achieve economically. Instead, the bauxite for many years was dissolved in molten cryolite, which lowers the melting point to about 900°C. But now, cryolite has been replaced by an artificial mixture of aluminium, sodium, and calcium fluorides. This process still requires a great deal of energy, and aluminium plants usually have their own power stations nearby.

The electrodes used in the electrolysis of bauxite are both carbon. Once the ore is in the molten state, its ions are free to move around. The reaction at the negative cathode is

Al3+ + 3e- → Al

Here the aluminium ion is being reduced (electrons are added). The aluminium metal then sinks to the bottom and is tapped off.

The positive anode oxidizes the oxygen of bauxite, which then reacts with the carbon electrode to form carbon dioxide:

2O2- → O2 + 2e-
O2 + C → CO2

This cathode must be replaced often because it turns into carbon dioxide. Despite the cost of electrolysis, aluminium is a cheap and widely used metal. Aluminium can now be extracted from clay, but this process is not economical.

Isotopes

Aluminium has nine isotopes, whose mass numbers range from 23 to 30. Only Al-27 (stable isotope) and Al-26 (radioactive isotope, t1/2 = 0.72 × 106 y) occur naturally. Al-26 is produced from argon in the atmosphere by spallation caused by cosmic-ray protons. Aluminium isotopes have found practical application in dating marine sediments, manganese nodules, glacial ice, quartz in rock exposures, and meteorites. The ratio of Al-26 to beryllium-10 has been used to study the role of transport, deposition, sediment storage, burial times, and erosion on 105 to 106 year time scales.

Cosmogenic Al-26 was first applied in studies of the Moon and meteorites. Meteorite fragments, after departure from their parent bodies, are exposed to intense cosmic-ray bombardment during their travel through space, causing substantial Al-26 production. After falling to Earth, atmospheric shielding protects the meteorite fragments from further Al-26 production, and its decay can then be used to determine the meteorite's terrestrial age. Meteorite research has also shown that Al-26 was relatively abundand at the time of formation of our planetary system. Possibly, the energy released by the decay of Al-26 was responsible for the remelting and differentiation of some asteroids after their formation 4.6 billion years ago.

Precautions

Aluminium is one of the few abundant elements that appear to have no beneficial function in living cells, but a few percent of people are allergic to it -- they experience contact dermatitis from any form of it: an itchy rash from using styptic or antiperspirant products, digestive disorders and inability to absorb nutrients from eating food cooked in aluminium pans, and vomiting and other symptoms of poisoning from ingesting such products as Kaopectate, Amphojel, and Maalox. In other persons, aluminium is not considered as toxic as heavy metals, but there is evidence of some toxicity if it is consumed in excessive amounts, although the use of aluminium cookware, popular because of its corrosion resistance and good heat conduction, has not been shown to lead to aluminium toxicity in general. Excessive consumption of antacids containing aluminium compounds and excessive use of aluminium-containing antiperspirants are more likely causes of toxicity. It has been suggested that aluminium may be linked to Alzheimer's disease, although that research has recently been refuted.

Spelling

The official IUPAC spelling of the element is aluminium; however, Americans and Canadians generally spell and pronounce it aluminum. In 1807, Humphrey Davy proposed aluminum for the name of this then-undiscovered metal, but he later decided to change the name to aluminium to conform with the "ium" convention used in most element names. The aluminium spelling then became the most common in both Britain and the United States. Then the United States changed over time to aluminum for popular purposes. The official name used in the United States in the field of chemistry remained aluminium until 1926 when the American Chemical Society decided to use the name aluminum in its publications.

In 1990 the IUPAC adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element. Aluminium is also the name used in French, Dutch, German, Danish, and Swedish; Italian uses alluminio, Portuguese alumínio and Spanish aluminio. (The use of these words in these other languages is one of the reasons IUPAC chose aluminium over aluminum.) In 1993, IUPAC recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant, but still prefers the use of aluminium.

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Aluminium hydroxide

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The chemical compound aluminium hydroxide is the major component of the mineral gibbsite, which itself is a component of the composite rock bauxite.

Its chemical formula is Al(OH)3.

Aluminium hydroxide is used as an antacid in the treatment of heartburn or acid indigestion.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aluminium hydroxide."

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Synonyms: Aluminum

Synonyms: aluminium (n), atomic number 13 (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aluminum

English words defined with "aluminum": almandine, almandite, Alnico, alum, alumina, aluminiferous, aluminium foil, aluminium oxide, aluminize, aluminous, aluminum business, aluminum foil, aluminum industry, aluminum oxide, amblygonite, ammonia alum, ammonium alum, amphibole group, atomic number 39, augitebauxite, bentonitecaustic soda, chamosite, Charles Martin Hall, control rod, cordierite, crush, cryolite, cyanitefeldspar, felspargibbsite, glauconite, Greenland sparhallisinglassjadeitekaolinite, kyanitelateritemash, mica, Monel metal, Monell metalnapalmparamagnetism, phlogopite, pinite, potash alum, potassium alum, pyrophyllitesial, sodalite, sodium hydroxide, spinel, spodumene, squash, squeeze, squelchtin foil, topaz, tourmaline, turquoiseY, yttrium. (references)
Specialty definitions using "aluminum": Aluminum Book, Aluminum Compounds, ASSEMBLER, ALUMINUM BOATSbattery-container tester, aluminumCUTTER, ALUMINUM SHEETINSPECTOR, ALUMINUM BOATSUPERVISOR, ALUMINUM BOAT ASSEMBLY, SUPERVISOR, ALUMINUM FABRICATION. (references)

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Modern Usage: Aluminum

DomainUsage

Screenplays

An aluminum pole (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Tongue Twisters

Cinnamon aluminum linoleum. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956)

Aluminum (1941)

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Commercial Usage: Aluminum

DomainTitle

References

  • International Aluminum Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Showa Aluminum Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kaiser Aluminum Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Namsun Aluminum Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Advanced Aluminum Alloys Containing Scandium: Structure and Properties (reference)

  • Aluminum Boatbuilding (reference)

  • Aluminum by Design (reference)

  • Aluminum Structures: A Guide to Their Specifications and Design (reference)

  • Boatbuilding with Aluminum (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Patinas and Finishes for Iron, Steel, and Aluminum, Video by Ron Young (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Aluminum

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Photo Album: Aluminum

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Lightweight aluminum observing tripod Astro party of C. V. Hodgson Note remains of old observing stand to left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Assembling lightweight aluminum observing tripod Astro party of C. V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 22. Chemical elements that are dissolved in sea water. Major elements are sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, silicon, carbon, sulfur, oxygen, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Minor elements are titanium, nitrogen, phosphorus , arsenic, boron, rubidium, cesium, lithium, strontium, barium, zinc, copper, silver, gold, aluminum, lead, manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Plant physiologist Leon Kochain (left) and molecular biologist David Garvin check wheat plants for aluminum tolerance. Some wheat and corn plants can tolerate aluminum by excluding the metal from the root tip. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Using a differential scanning calorimeter, plant physiologist Christina Walters can detect phase-state changes of water and lipids in seeds. First she cools thin slices of seed tissues sealed in tiny aluminum pans (held in tweezers) to -170°C. The relationship she finds between a seed's water content, temperature at which its heat capacity changes, and size of the change give clues about the nature of glasses that form. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Maria Vieria standing on a ladder overlooking her abstract sculpture made of gilded aluminum laminae at the Swiss National Exposition in Lausanne, Switzerland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and. Credit: Library of Congress.

Douglas Aircraft's salvage queen. Annette del Sur, an office employee at Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, California, poses atop a pile of aluminum scraps collected at the plant to help publicize Uncle Sam's salvage campaign. The earings and hair ornaments a. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corporation, Flemington, New York. Exterior I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aluminum City Terrace, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Building no. 20. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Aluminum
 

"Banister" by bizilagun design
Commentary: "Detail of a glass and aluminum banister at Madrid's airport."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Aluminum

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Be sure your phosphate binder and your other drugs are free of aluminum. (references)

The most studied of these are aluminum, zinc, foodborne poisons, and viruses. (references)

The final product contains no more than 2.4 mg of aluminum hydroxide as adjuvant. (references)

Business

Within the aerospace industry, aluminum usage continues to grow rapidly due to the sheer volume of aircraft production. (references)

Aluminum and magnesium usage will increase in automotive applications as steel and cast iron usage in that sector declines. (references)

The U.S. share in these imports was USD 2 million, consisting mainly of prefabricated wooden houses, aluminum profiles, and structural steel. (references)

Children

Georgia

For example, in August 2000, the police detained an 11-year old boy in Tbilisi who was trying to sell a sheet of aluminum. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

A third attempt at the aluminum privatization in December 1998 also failed. (references)

Ghana

Aluminum exports from Valco are a major source of foreign exchange for Ghana. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

Iron, aluminum, steel, and petrochemical products together comprise nearly half of the nonoil exports. (references)

Tajikistan

The small industrial sector is dominated overwhelmingly by aluminum production (another critical source of government revenue). (references)

Iceland

An abundance of inexpensive hydroelectric power provides a comparative advantage for aluminum smelting, the main manufacturing activity. (references)

Trade

Jordan

Exports of scrap metal, mainly steel, aluminum and copper are subject to a fee of JD 25 per ton. (references)

Ukraine

Aluminum Smelter - TDA has approved partial funding ($240,900) for a study on conversion of the ZALK smelter to pre-bake technology. (references)

Taiwan

Examples of this requirement include going to Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH) for medical equipment, the Board of Foreign Trade or the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry for fertilizers, and the Department of Environmental Protection for waste and scrap copper, aluminum, lead and zinc. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

In October two-thirds of the operators and maintenance workers at the MOZAL aluminum plant in Matola engaged in a walk-out, seeking to reopen negotiations for wages and benefits for their contract. (references)

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Spoken Usage: Aluminum

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Julia Child

You want to keep the mouth open so that you can put an apple in. So I just use a ball of aluminum foil. I'm going to stick that in the mouth, and that keeps the mouth open while the pig is roasting.

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Speeches: Aluminum

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George W. Bush

2001-2005Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

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Usage Frequency: Aluminum

"Aluminum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aluminum" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

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Usage in Company Names: Aluminum

CountryNameCountryName
Japan

Showa Aluminum Corporation

South Korea

Namsun Aluminum Co., Ltd.

USA

International Aluminum Corporation

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Expression: Aluminum

Expressions using "aluminum": aluminum acetate aluminum alloy aluminum annealing aluminum Book aluminum bronze aluminum business Aluminum Carbonate aluminum cement aluminum chloride Aluminum Compounds aluminum duraluminium aluminum fluoride aluminum foil aluminum gold aluminum hydroxide Aluminum Hydroxide and Magnesium Hydroxide aluminum industry Aluminum Magnesium Hydroxide Sulfate aluminum melting aluminum nitrate aluminum nitride aluminum ore aluminum oxide aluminum paint aluminum pipe aluminum powder aluminum properties aluminum sheet aluminum silicate Aluminum Silicates aluminum solder aluminum steel aluminum strip aluminum sulphate aluminum tube aluminum ware aluminum welding aluminum wire common aluminum disappearing aluminum forged aluminum hydrated aluminum oxide second aluminum. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "aluminum": aluminum-antimonide, aluminum-phosphide.

Ending with "aluminum": manganese-aluminum.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aluminum

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aluminum

1,452

cast aluminum patio furniture

131

aluminum boat

1,102

aluminum radiator

128

aluminum fence

290

aluminum fencing

126

aluminum tubing

284

aluminum polishing

116

aluminum fishing boat

280

aluminum pipe

115

aluminum patio furniture

251

aluminum replacement window

111

aluminum window

245

aluminum briefcase

107

aluminum siding

245

aluminum tube

106

aluminum ramp

232

aluminum foil

105

aluminum welding

214

aluminum oxide

103

aluminum extrusions

214

aluminum blind

101

aluminum awning

194

extruded aluminum

101

aluminum case

175

painting aluminum siding

98

aluminum cleaners

167

kaiser aluminum

93

aluminum extrusion

165

aluminum can

91

aluminum sheet

162

aluminum carport

90

aluminum casting

155

aluminum alloy

89

aluminum wheels

150

aluminum jon boat

88

aluminum trailer

149

aluminum diamond plate

86

aluminum polish

131

aluminum canoe

85
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Modern Translation: Aluminum

Language Translations for "aluminum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

alumin (aluminium), prej alumini (aluminium). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

алуминий (aluminium), алуминиев (aluminium, aluminous). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

, (Aluminium). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hliník (aluminium). (various references)

   

Danish

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aluminio (aluminium). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alumiini (aluminium). (various references)

   

French

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

German

  

Aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλουμίνιο (aluminium). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חמרן (aluminium), אלומיניום (aluminium). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

alumínium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Irish

  

alúmanam (aluminium). (various references)

   

Italian

  

alluminio (aluminium). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アルペン種目 (almanac, Alpine events, Alpine sports, alumina, aluminium, aluminium foil, aluminium sash, aluminum foil, anodized aluminum, armadillo, armagnac, tin foil). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アルミニウム (aluminium), アルミ (aluminium). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

알루미늄 (Al, Al-, Aluminium). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

aluminio (aluminium). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aluminumay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

alumínio (aluminium). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aluminiu (aluminium). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

алюминий (aluminium). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

aluminijumski (aluminium), aluminijum (aluminium). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aluminio (aluminium). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

aluminium (aluminium). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

alumínyo (aluminium). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alüminyum (aluminium), alümínyum (aluminium). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

алюміній (aluminium). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Aluminum

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

alumen. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aluminum

Derivations

Words beginning with "aluminum": aluminums. (additional references)

Words ending with "aluminum": nonaluminum. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aluminum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaluminum, albuminum, aliminium, alimunium, allumenum, alluminium, alluminum, allumnium, aluminas, alumini, aluminim, aluminimum, alumino, Aluminon, aluminuim, aluminun, aluminus, alumminun, alunimum, auminum, Nalumino. (additional references)

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Rhyming with "Aluminum"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "aluminum" (pronounced uluw"munum)
8u l uw" m u n u maluminium.
4-u n u macronym, arcanum, organum, duodenum, lanthanum, laudanum, tympanum.
3-n u mmolybdenum, phenom, platinum, plenum, denim, granum, interregnum, magnum, venom.

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Anagrams: Aluminum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-m-n-u-u"

-2 letters: alumin, alumni, lumina.

-3 letters: imaum, liman, linum, miaul.

-4 letters: alum, amin, anil, imam, lain, lima, limn, luau, luna, mail, maim, main, malm, maul, maun, mina, mumu, muni, nail, ulan, ulna, unai, unau.

-5 letters: ail, aim, ain, ami, amu, ani, lam, lin, lum, man, mil, mim, mum, mun, nam, nil, nim, ulu, umm.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-m-n-u-u"
 

+1 letter: aluminium, aluminums.

 

+2 letters: aluminiums.

 

+3 letters: animalculum, funambulism, nonaluminum.

 

+4 letters: funambulisms.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Company Usage
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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